9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] APL
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:01:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSxfm+ApjhnAH2JMJP8R_XUA0cWCVGJcOUhasFJKGV=PeU2MQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09039be1035b0ed7@orthanc.ca>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1353 bytes --]

Have you seen Rob's Ivy? It's in Go.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 2:32 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <
lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:

> Long ago and far away I built/ran Thompson's APL (from the V7 source
> tape IIRC) on one of the VAXen.  This was very much pre-ANSI C code,
> but the Ultrix 1.1 compiler handled it fine.
> 
> About 15 years ago I dusted off the source and started converting
> it to ANSI C, but I got distracted and have since lost the source.
> Has anyone here done anything similar.  I would really like to have
> a native APL (even an ancient one like above).  If anyone did get
> it converted to ANSI, a native port could be bootstrapped through
> APE.
> 
> Failing that, does anybody have a copy of the original source
> kicking around?  Since the virus is going to keep me locked up
> for a few more months yet, porting would help pass the time :-)
> 
> --lyndon
> 
> P.S.  Yes I know there are a million other APLs out there, as
> well as J and the assorted follow-ons.  It's the V7 code I'm
> specifically interested in.  Maybe it's tucked away in the
> bitsaver archives ...

------------------------------------------
9fans: 9fans
Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T476a1d7b83269775-M8cc9d7ba17eca92a48d76793
Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2680 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-21 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-21 22:31 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-21 23:01 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
2021-02-21 23:19 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-22  1:24 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 16:53   ` jas
2021-02-22 17:46     ` arnold
2021-02-22 18:28       ` tlaronde
2021-02-22 20:35         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-22 21:44           ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-23  8:14             ` tlaronde
2021-02-23  8:58               ` arnold
2021-02-23  9:20                 ` tlaronde
2021-02-23  9:57                   ` arnold
2021-02-23 10:09                     ` tlaronde
2021-02-23  7:57           ` tlaronde
2021-02-22 22:01         ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 22:43           ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-22 23:09             ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 23:56               ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-23  0:13                 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-23  0:03               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-23  0:47                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-23  4:41                   ` ori
2021-02-23  5:11                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-23  5:16                     ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-24 13:48                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-08 22:11                     ` Jerome Ibanes
2021-02-24  0:33 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='CAJSxfm+ApjhnAH2JMJP8R_XUA0cWCVGJcOUhasFJKGV=PeU2MQ@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com \
    --cc=9fans@9fans.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).